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Late night celebrations for India as Geetika wins silver MIL/Agenices/Zeenews, Dec 12, 2006. Doha, December 12, 2006 - Geetika Jhakar and Alka Tomar stole the limelight as India claimed a silver and a bronze medal from the women's wrestling events of the 15th Asian games here on Monday. The 21-year-old Geetika, who made it to the final of the women's freestyle 63 kg category, had to be content with a silver medal as she lost the final bout against Japan's Kaori Icho 0-5 at the aspire hall. Geetika could not get a single classification or technical point in the summit showdown unlike his Japanese opponent who bagged eight technical points and five classification points, as per zeenews.com. Alka Tomar had her moment of glory in the event as she took home the bronze medal by defeating China`s Su Lihui 3-1 in the 55 kg category bronze medal match. Alka managed five technical points and three classification points while her Chinese opponent had five technical and one classification point to her credit. With two more additions, India's medal haul from the wrestling mat has gone up two one silver and two bronze with two more days of the competition remaining. Vinayak Dalvi had won a bronze in men's Greco-Roman section. India, however, missed out on another bronze medal when Sonia lost to Kyrgystan's Iana Panova who carved out a 3-0 victory. Earlier in the morning session, Geetika got the better of Mongolia's Odonchimeg Badrakh in the semi-final with a comfortable 3-0 victory. It was Geetika who was the pick of the Indian grapplers on show as she secured two technical points and three classification points to tame Badrakh in the semi-final. Geetika had prevailed over Korea's Kim Hee Jeong 3-1 in a quarter final bout in the morning session of competitions. Two other grapplers Neha and Alka Tomar lost their first bouts in the women's freestyle 48 kg and 55 kg categories. But Alka won her two other bouts for a bronze medal round. Neha made a spirited effort but could not counter her Chinese opponent Li Xiaomei to go down 1-3 in the preliminary round. "The Chinese girl was very good and fast. I tried but I lost. I came for a medal, I tried my best, but I am sad by this early loss", Neha said
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